Locality 2 (Wanakah Shale, Smokes Creek, NY) (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.8° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wanakah Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• The Ludlowville Formation is a member of the Hamilton Group, this is an upper Wanakah section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous mudstone

• the wanakah is a dark gray fissile mudrock, 12-21 m thick, composed of approximately 97% clay, mostly illite and chlorite, with minor amounts of quartz silt and calcite.

Collection methods: mechanical,

• This is one of three quarried collections; it is from the lower layer, and is from seven 100 square cm quarried shale blocks.

Primary reference: C. R. Clement. 1982. The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York. 1-110 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 5664: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.11.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
Crinoidea
 Sagenocrinida - Icthyocrinidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
cephalon (4), pygidia (2)
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bifoliate (177), ramose (1)
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Crania crenistriata" = Philhedra crenistriata
"Crania crenistriata" = Philhedra crenistriata Hall 1860
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata, Platyceras sp.
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Ostreida -
Pterioidea indet. Gray 1847 oyster